What do we reckon, a tenner on Zavvi by the end of June? Or maybe they'll somehow region lock it to the wrong region? It's too little, too late for this game I think. If it ever shows up on Playstation Plus I might give it a go but can't see myself buying. It's not this game I care about to be honest but the precedent that PS3 region locking could set for future Atlus games that I would care about.
I can see the nightmare scenario now. Atlus using the inevitable low sales of Persona 4 Arena as an excuse to just not even bother licensing the few titles they deem worthy for Europe out. They'll then region lock every future one of their titles, even on PS3 and Vita. After that they'll withdraw the upcoming UK release of Volume 3 of Persona 4 the Animation on Blu-ray, alllowing only a Betamax only release with the Japanese audio removed, the picture in black-and-white and the audio in Esperanto.
In 2014 they'll change their minds and try again with a European reprint of Snowboard Kids on N64 via Zen United or Ghostlight. They'll then pull out of Europe once and for all when they wonder why the silly Europeans don't buy the game they graciously offered in the region.
What a mess of a situation.